The Agent Smith Effect In the movie, The Matrix, Agent Smith has the ability to enter any body, at any time, and that often happens when the Matrix is threatened by Neo. This senario is a reflection of our real world. For example, you're having a conversation with a friend and everything is fine until you mention something like, "vaccines are poison", "earth is flat", "9/11 was an inside job" Now watch what happens, up pops Agent Smith, to replace the person you were just having a conversation with to attack you because all truths threaten the Matrix. Most people have had the Agent Smith Matrix programming since birth. These programmed people become the guardians of the economic Matrix that keeps them slave's, protectors of the code. The police of mind control and enforcers of the indoctrination which holds together our false concept of reality like super glue.

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The CloudFlare outage was a good thing https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048 Cloudflare, the CDN provider, suffered a massive outage today. Some of the world's most popular apps and web services were left inaccessible for serveral hours whilst the Cloudflare team scrambled to fix a whole swathe of the internet. And that might be a good thing. The proximate cause of the outage was pretty mundane: a bad config file triggered a latent bug in one of Cloudflare's services. https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646 The file was too large (details still hazy) and this led to a cascading failure across Cloudflare operations. Probably there is some useful post-morteming about canary releases and staged rollouts. But the bigger problem, the ultimate cause, behind today's chaos is the creeping centralisation of the internet and a society that is sleepwalking into assuming the net is always on and always working. It's not just "trivial" stuff like Twitter and League of Legends that were affected, either. A friend of mine remarked caustically about his experience this morning "I couldn't get air for my tyres at two garages because of cloudflare going down. Bloody love the lack of resilience that goes into the design when the machine says "cash only" and there's no cash slot. So flat tires for everyone! Brilliant." We are living in a society where every part of our lives is increasingly mediated through the internet: work, banking, retail, education, entertainment, dating, family, government ID and credit checks. And the internet is increasingly tied up in fewer and fewer points of failure. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/a-single-point-of-failure-triggered-the-amazon-outage-affecting-millions/ It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war. But due to the economics of the internet, the challenges of things like bots and scrapers, more of more web services are holed up in citadels like AWS or behind content distribution networks like Cloudflare. Outages like today's are a good thing because they're a warning. They can force redundancy and resilience into systems. They can make the pillars of our society - governments, businesses, banks - provide reliable alternatives when things go wrong. (Ideally ones that are completely offline) You can draw a parallel to how COVID-19 shook up global supply chains: the logic up until 2020 was that you wanted your system to be as lean and efficient as possible, even if it meant relying totally on international supplies or keeping as little spare inventory as possible. After 2020 businesses realised they needed to diversify and build slack in the system to tolerate shocks. In the same way that growing one kind of banana, https://www.treehugger.com/extinct-banana-5201723 nearly resulted in bananas going extinct, we're drifing towards a society that can't survive without digital infrastructure; and a digital infrastructure that can't operate without two or three key players. One day there's going to be an outage, a bug, or cyberattack from a hostile state, that demonstrates how fragile that system is. Embrace outages, and build redundancy.

XDA Developers just covered rns-vpn-rs, Beechat's open-source project that brings full VPN functionality to the Reticulum cryptographic mesh. rns-vpn-rs bridges the gap between conventional networking and trustless mesh systems. It assigns static IPs to cryptographic nodes, letting any IP-based app run securely over Reticulum, even without Internet or infrastructure. Underneath, Reticulum provides asynchronous, store and forward routing, up to 128 mesh hops, and end-to-end encryption, forming a self-healing, delay tolerant transport layer. As XDA's Joe Rice-Jones points out, this has major potential for field operations, disaster zones, and decentralised systems that must keep working when everything else fails. Full article here: https://www.xda-developers.com/amazing-off-grid-open-source-vpn/